Reply To: Barack Obama on Energy

[Aeronaut]

Rezwan wrote:

if we put $10 million into something, well in a couple years they’d need another $50 million, and a couple years after that they’d need another $200 million and so on.

You could cap it at 10 million. That would definitely cover LPP’s experiment with enough room for contingencies. Then you could see if it needed more. This is an opening avenue of fusion research – a bold attempt at a new approach, and with a superior fusion fuel.

There is the thrill of science here! Boldly exploring something new.

What is it that people want? Spending millions on lunar landing prizes so that rich tourists can visit the moon. Does that affect all of mankind? Wouldn’t some work on fusion – which could potentially supply the energy for everyone to visit the moon or at least have decent lives be a priority?

Somehow we have to make fusion – and for now the very impossibility of it – sexy.

Now is the time to kick some “impossible” fusion butt, not to wuss out. Pathetic.

I just devoured a book called Viral Loop, which is the story of viral idea spreading. Some interesting facts I picked up were that the Twenteens- essentially high school and college age demographics- are the early adopters that will spread an idea with no marketing or advertising expenses whatsoever.

What seems to be hidden out in plain site when we discuss funding and site appeal is that we’re targeting people who decided at least a decade ago that fusion energy was never going to pan out. I’ll call this the Billionaire idea. The mainstream media and search engines reinforce this due to all of the “authority” stemming from having a dot gov or dot edu domain and thousands of documents in their keyword silos.

If we were able to seed a viral campaign to get a million or more people to each contribute $1 (vote with their wallets), and it took 10M uniques to do that in a month or less, would we crash the server? Also, how much extra would that cost us in bandwidth? The early histories of Ebay, PayPal, FB, etc. all revolve around keeping the server from crashing due to volume, and to monetize faster than bandwidth fees can bankrupt the company.

Assuming only 10% click through from the main index page, it may be time to consider making it an HTML page with only a few links to the EE components. I just wrote a draft Special Report that you can download at http://energymadecleanly.com/Vol1.pdf

I’m open to suggestions on how to improve it. Most of this I wrote off the top of my head over the past 48 hours. I expect to have a much more polished version posted late Monday, and begin promoting on Tuesday.